I Love Dinosaurs

We are three kids and our Mom who love dinosaurs. We like to read about them and learn about them. We will be exploring the internet to find cool dinosaur stuff and we will tell you about it here. We will tell you all about our adventures too!

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Breaking News from our friends

Hi! Our friends Pippa and Judy and their mom, Elizabeth sent us these great sites. We cant' wait to explore them and tell you how we liked them. Maybe you could visit them and let us know what you think!

Breaking news for dino-kids! There may have been much more mammal life co-existing with dinosaurs than scientists first thought --

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Our visit to Courtenay Museum

This is a picture of a Tylosaurus, a relative of the Mosasaur. It was created by Olduvai George (artist, Carl Buell).

Last week we went to Courtney Museum. We saw an Elasmosaur (here's a photo of it) and a Mosasaur and a lungfish. We also saw some cards with drawings from other kids who had visited them too. Their website has a great page for kids with cool jigsaw puzzles and the story of a girl named Heather Trask who found the elasmosaur with her dad.

We read a news story today about how a paleontologist thinks that plesiosaurs ate bottom living creatures like clams and snails. They found the undigested bits of food still in its guts. They think that it used the gastroliths in its stomach to grind up the shells.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Our favourite paleontologist--Paul Sereno

The first video we ever saw about a paleontologist was the National Geographic special "I Love Dinosaurs", which showed Paul Sereno digging up Jobaria. We really loved the part where he went to the Bowmanville Zoo and worked with Angus the elephant. We loved it so much that when we went to Ontario last summer, we got our Gramma to take us to visit Angus. He was amazing. We are so glad that he has gone to Africa to be with other really big elephants (Mom's note: they don't know, don't tell them, please!).

We also checked out Project Exploration that was started by Paul Sereno and his wife Gabrielle Lyons. It looks like they have some really cool things for kids to do. We'll have to visit it again and read some of the reports by kids on what they did.

About Me

We are three siblings who love dinosaurs. We want to work as paleontologists when we grow up. We are learning to read, but we don't type or spell really well yet, so we tell our mom what to write and she types it for us. She also helps us to find cool stuff on the internet. We would love to find other kids and adults that love what we do to share and talk with.